The Meaning and Purpose of Art — 4
If you are an art collector, then art does not really have any meaning for you, and the only purpose of art for you would be to earn profits.
However, for the rest of us, which includes the artist, the curator and the viewer, art can have very different meanings and a very different purpose.
I am a humanist in my values, so I tend to fall for Van Gogh’s quote; “ Art is to console those, who are broken by life,” and here in this blog I will discuss my view of looking at art.
